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ChatGPT GPT-5.6 vs Claude Fable 5: Coding and Long-Form Writing, Who Actually Wins
The short version: nobody wins outright "Coding" is not one skill. Which ruler you use flips the conclusion completely. GPT-5.6's top tier is Sol. On the Claude side it is Fable 5. These two are the
Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again: Coding Falls Short, Alphabet Sheds ~6% in Two Days
From "give us one more month" to "coming soon" At Google I/O on May 19, Sundar Pichai stood on stage and said: give us one more month. Everyone bought it. A month later, nothing shipped. The new lin
When Open Source Breaks Closed Pricing: Kimi K3 Raises 4x, US Tech Stocks Plunge
A Chinese model prices like an American one for the first time Kimi K3's API pricing: per million tokens, $0.30 cache-hit input, $3 cache-miss input, $15 output. The last two — $3 input, $15 output
Kimi K3 Tops the Arena Blind Test: Beats Fable 5 and GPT-5.6, But How Good Is It Really?
A blind test win, not a self-reported score First, let's be clear about what this leaderboard is. Arena's Frontend Code Arena uses the Elo rating system — same logic as chess rankings. Real develope
Mira Murati's First Move: Inkling, 975B Open Weights with Native Audio
Mira Murati's first card Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, pulled the wraps off its first foundation model on July 17 — Inkling. 975 billion parameters, Mixture-of-Exp
Kimi K3 Drops at Midnight: 2.8T Params, the Largest Open Model Yet
2.8 trillion. The open-weights ceiling just broke again. At midnight on July 17, Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3. 2.8 trillion parameters, Mixture-of-Experts, 16 experts fired per token — the first open
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Drops Tomorrow: A Month-Long Retrain to Beat Fable 5 at Frontend
Google Is Making a Big Bet Tomorrow, July 17, Google DeepMind's flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, finally drops. It was supposed to land in June. Instead it got pushed back over a month. And this wasn
InstaLILY Sends AI Forward Deployed Engineers Into Companies — $60M Raised, 5x Revenue Growth
This AI Isn't Here to Assist You On July 14, a company called InstaLILY raised a $60 million Series B. Led by Energize Capital, with Home Depot Ventures and United Rentals piling in as strategic inve
After His Mom Was Hit by an AI Voice-Clone Scam, He Built an Anti-Scam App — Just Raised $7M
This Starts With a Scam Call Two years ago, Patrick Coughlin's mother got a phone call. On the other end was her daughter — crying, saying she'd been kidnapped, demanding ransom. It was an AI voice
OpenAI's First Hardware Revealed: A Screenless Smart Speaker Built to Be Your AI Companion
Not a Keyboard — a Speaker Bloomberg revealed on July 15 that OpenAI's long-awaited first consumer hardware device is a screenless, movable smart speaker. The Codex Micro that went on sale July 15 i
Microsoft Quietly Replaced OpenAI with Its Own MAI Models in Excel and Outlook
Microsoft Is Pulling Away from OpenAI Bloomberg dropped a scoop on July 14: Microsoft has been quietly swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models for its own MAI series inside Excel and Outlook. Tens of t
WAIC Next Week: 1,100 Companies, 300 Global Debuts, AI Agent Phone Premiere
Record Scale July 17-20. The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance opens in Shanghai. The numbers: 1,100+ companies exhibiting — a record 3